Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I am a junior cannonballer who primarily reads mystery, dystopian, historical fiction, and YA. 3rd year participating.

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Cannonball in the nick of time!

Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed

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No matter what the verdict is. No matter how long they would serve. They’re alive. Jawad isn’t. We might get accountability, but it won’t be justice. What’s justice for a murdered kid? I picked this book up after reading Internment, since I wanted more by the author. Also, it was free! What’s not to love about free books? Hollow Fires tells the story of Safiya Mirza, who dreams of becoming a journalist. Through her job as editor of the school newspaper, she has learned that […]

Old favorite, still great

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

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“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there–like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.” I’d just like to preface this by saying that, when I was younger, this was my favorite book of all time. Although I have definitely read books that I prefer since then, it is still such a […]

Puzzles for you, not just the characters

The Reader by Traci Chee

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“This is a book, and a book is a world, and words are the seeds in which meanings are curled. Pages of oceans and margins of land are civilizations you hold in the palm of your hand. But look at your world and your life seems to shrink to cities of paper and seas made of ink. Do you know who you are, or have you been misled? Are you the reader, or are you the read?” This book follows Sefia, who fled to the […]

Fun, sweet, and nostalgic

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

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This was a book from my dad’s childhood, which he gave to me a few years ago. Like a lot of books, I just never got around to reviewing it but I revisited it recently, and decided that now was the time to review it. Hidden beneath the kitchen floor is practically another world, or at least another home, belonging to a family of Borrowers comprised of Pod and Homily Clock and their daughter, Arrietty. They are effectively tiny people and, in their home, matchboxes […]

Worthy sequels

Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

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A few years ago, I reviewed the first one of this trilogy (Nevermore), but I never got around to reviewing the rest. Since I reread them recently, just for fun, I decided that now was as good a time as any to review them. *SPOILERS FOR NEVERMORE* Morrigan Crow has defeated her curse and become a member of the Wundrous Society. However, while she is hoping for an education with imagination, discovery, wunder, and learning about her powers, she just gets taught about how horrible […]

Good mystery and puzzling puzzles

Winterhouse by Ben Guterson

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“Some people say this world of ours is just a tumbling stone. No soul, no guide, no heart within, mere atoms all alone. But I believe there’s more to things than simply meets the eyes. There’s good and bad—and so I say: Make sure the good survives.” I first read this book years ago, but recently was cleaning and reorganizing my bookshelf, saw it, got inspired, and decided to revisit it. Elizabeth Somers, an orphan, got shipped of to Winterhouse Hotel buy her aunt and […]



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